THEY RULE
Via Ratchet Up comes this link to John On’s Net-art project, They Rule, which Ratchet’s John Schott calls “the best cartography of social and political influence I have ever seen.”
“They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the U.S. ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 500 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and e-mail links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.”
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